Childhood and child labour in industrial England : diversity and agency, 1750-1914 / edited by Nigel Goose [and] Katrina Honeyman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goose, Nigel.

Honeyman, Katrina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child labor--Great Britain--History.

Child labor.

Children--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Children.

Industrial revolution--Great Britain.

Industrial revolution.

Great Britain--Social conditions.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions. The two key overarching themes are diversity: social, economic, geographical, and cultural; and agency: the need to see children in industrial England as participants - even protagonists - in the process of historical change, not simply as passive recipients or victims. Contributors address such crucial subjects as the varied experience of work; poverty and apprenticeship; institutional care; the political voice of chil

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Child Sexual Abuse in Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century London: Rape, Sexual Assault and the Denial of Agency; 3 Charity Apprenticeship and Social Capital in Eighteenth-Century England; 4 Compulsion, Compassion and Consent: Parish Apprenticeship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England; 5 Agency and Reform: The Regulation of Chimney Sweep Apprentices, 1770-1840; 6 Care and Cruelty in the Workhouse: Children's Experiences of Residential Poor Relief in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England

7 Victorian Social Investigation and the Children's Employment Commission, 1840-18428 Child Employment Prospects in Nineteenth-Century Hertfordshire in Perspective: Varieties of Childh; 9 'We Will Have It': Children and Protest in the Ten Hours Movement; 10 Changing Conceptualizations of Children's Rights in Early Industrial Britain; 11 'Something in the Place of Home': Children in Institutional Care 1850-1918; 12 Moral Instruction, Urban Poverty and English Elementary Schools in the Late Nineteenth Century; 13 Working Lads in Late-Victorian London; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-57147-1

1-317-16792-9

1-317-16791-0

1-4094-1115-X

9781315571478

OCLC:

856870717